Ben Bass Quotes
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.
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People think that you can save calories by eating fewer meals a day, but it works just the opposite: the fewer meals you eat, the more counterproductive it becomes to you being able to lose weight.
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I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
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Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
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The music I was making for people not to dance to was the one they were dancing to.
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I really like clever men who challenge you.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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I think it's interesting: What is the generational effect of the experience of being a gay person in America? For my generation, it was very difficult.
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When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds.
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Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.
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The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.
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I guess I don't take my stardom too seriously. I think I am one of the guys.
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Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.
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Many, many years ago, I stood on the stage and told bad jokes and did Sophie Tucker as an impersonation, and nobody looked up; and suddenly, I looked down and said, 'Sir, I'm getting fed up with you. Either you watch, or I'm going to suck your neck,' or words to that effect, and suddenly people started to laugh.
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I had to turn down a part in 'Empire of the Sun.' It would have paid £15,000, which was a year's earnings for me then, but I was offered a season at the 'National Theatre.'
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Chelsea belongs in the Champions League, and we must stay there.
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The goal for me is the Olympics. It's Sochi and doing my best there. And, you know, my best has the potential to be on the podium.
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Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.
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I liked 'Deadwood.'
